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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| 2 US troops killed in Afghanistan |
| 2005-06-08 |
| Insurgents fired at least one mortar bomb into a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two members of the U.S. armed forces and wounding eight, the U.S. military said. Twelve U.S. military personnel have been killed in a wave of clashes, blasts and rebel ambushes in Afghanistan since late March. U.S. troops were preparing to unload supplies from a Chinook helicopter at a forward operating base near Shkin, near Paktika province's border with Pakistan, when the attack occurred, a U.S. military spokeswoman said. The U.S. military did not say which branch of the armed forces the dead service members belonged to, pending notification of next of kin. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |